Officials with the Yukon government plan to give a briefing Thursday morning on how it is responding to the failure of the heap leach facility at Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine near Mayo.
Gov’t ordered mining company to provide plans to treat and monitor contaminated water
The government of the Yukon holds a briefing on the heap leach facility failure at Victoria Gold’s Eagle gold mine.
Officials with the Yukon government plan to give a briefing Thursday morning on how it is responding to the failure of the heap leach facility at Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine near Mayo.
You can watch the briefing live on this page starting at 10:30 Yukon time.
The briefing comes after the Yukon government ordered the mining company to provide plans on how it will treat and monitor water that was contaminated as a result of the facility’s failure.
A new report written by a government inspector states there’s “reasonable grounds” to believe the company has violated laws that govern water use.
Last week, the territory said it had detected “elevated” levels of cyanide in a creek downstream from the mine, confirming fears that the toxic chemicals the facility held had seeped into water.